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has little or no knowledge of the laws ws — The 
losopher commences the inquiry,with a ; but soon. stumbles 
upon one of his eS general principles, and then abandons* 
the pursuit as hopeles The un med mechanic is not so 
easily disheartened. if he fails in one -Athoaaihe fhe sees no reason 
why he should not succeed in the next. Perseverance supplies 
the want of skill. His very blunders may turn to his advantage, 
by leading to combinations of machinery which a person of more 
scientific views would have rejected without trial. He however 
is not exempt from embarrassments. They are mostly of a na- 
ture not to be ae Meat described. But they all terminate in 
one ; his machine won’ 
t must be acknowledged, however, that although this is the 
general result, it is not universal. There i is, here and there, a 
solitary exception. A man, after years of thought, and toil, and 
disappointment, finds at length the object of all his wishes attain- 
d. His machine goes. His labors are at an end. His fortune 
and his fame are secured. He has shown himself superior to all 
the pretenders to science and mechanical skill, » His name a“ ~ : 
go down to posterity, in the same rank with Bacon and ° aS 
But in the intoxication of success, one thing seems to have oie 
caped him. He has forgotten that all motion is not cei ; 
motion. . His machine stops.- His dream is ag -and he awalké& 
to the realities of the life of asober’mechat Se ree 
. Must we then be driven to the a ‘that pe 3 ae alm moz < 
tion is absolutely and forever + eh 2? Shall we bstinately- 
close our eyes and ears against all-proof which may ‘of = 
its actual existence? Shall we. cen tthe testimony of our ay, gga 
when we see the aha: really in motion? When a man ae 
fesses to have made the great discovery, afd calls upon Us to ac-" ¥ 
cede to his iccreion. we have a right to suspend our “opinion§ se ) 
till ¥ made neve his claim, either by shgwipg the cual tal 
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